ME LD1882

Directs the Department of Environmental Protection to amend rules under Title 38, section 480-BB to enhance protections for significant vernal pools

Creates a new definition of "significant vernal pool buffer" as critical terrestrial habitat within 100 feet of the spring or fall high-water mark of the vernal pool depression

Prohibits any disturbance within the 100-foot significant vernal pool buffer zone under updated habitat management standards

Extends protections to critical terrestrial habitat that crosses property boundaries, ensuring the same protections apply even when the vernal pool depression is located on an adjacent property

Adjusts vernal pool drying dates for habitat identification criteria to July 15th for northern Maine and July 1st for southern Maine